Marketing design and innovation assignment

It induces family bonding which simply means that a family unit is able to connect and share experiences after having viewed educational and entertaining programs. THE INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION One person may say to the other, ‘ There’s a great show on tonight on the Food Channel, let’s stay home and look at it, it’s going to be great. It’s that new lasagne recipe from Mama Inada’. Or in another instance, the final episode of ‘ American Idol’ encourages viewer participation via online votes or voting by text for the favourite singer.

The popular TV show ‘ Friends’ entices happiness and the simulated scenes familiarises the viewer with the characters thus fostering a viewership loyalty with the program. Whilst there are positive influences of the television, there are negative ones as well. The simulated images of war, violence, substance abuse and other socially taboo practices proves to be issues of great public debate. Whilst the script writers endeavour to create some sort of positive outcome, the negativity still remains. On cable channels there are adult channels that are not conducive for public viewing.